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5.4/10   234 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Alan Hackney (screenplay)
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Release Date:
25 January 1961 (USA) more
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Tagline:
"NEW and Greatest Adventures of Robin Hood... The World's Most Renowned Swordsman!"
Plot:
The sheriff of Nottingham plots to confiscate the estate of the Lord of Bortrey, who has died on Crusade... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Richard Greene ... Robin Hood
Sarah Branch ... Maid Marian

Peter Cushing ... Sheriff of Nottingham
Richard Pasco ... Edward, Earl of Newark
Nigel Green ... Little John
Niall MacGinnis ... Friar Tuck (as Niall McGinnis)

Jack Gwillim ... Archbishop Hubert Walter
Edwin Richfield ... The Sheriff's Lieutenant

Oliver Reed ... Lord Melton
Patrick Crean ... Lord Ollerton
Vanda Godsell ... The Prioress
Dennis Lotis ... Alan A'Dale
Derren Nesbitt ... Martin of Eastwood, merry man
James Neylin ... Roger, a merry man
John Franklin ... Archbishop's Adjutant
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Additional Details

Runtime:
80 min
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Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Fun Stuff

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Oliver Reed's voice is not heard; he's dubbed throughout by another (anonymous) actor. more
Movie Connections:
Version of Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964) more

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Period charm, 18 March 2008
7/10
Author: timsmith37 from United Kingdom

This is not as bad as all that. Terence Fisher as ever does a competent job, there are reasonable production values and some rather fetching photography. I always thought Richard Greene a little too schoolmasterly for an outlaw, and he is here rather portly, but he can certainly handle a bow. Nigel Greene and Niall McGinnis are well cast as Little John and Tuck, Peter Cushing is an excellent Sheriff, and Richard Pasco does well as the ambiguous Lord Newark. Oliver Reed's camp henchman is perhaps less successful.

The conspiracy plot unfolds at a relaxed pace and resolves satisfyingly. The weakest element is the tacked on romance with Sarah Branch's rather bland Maid Marion.

All in all a rather charming period piece, that gets closer to the spirit of the original ballads than most versions.

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